James Bond: Amazon MGM Gains Creative Control
variety.com
As Amazon MGM gains control of the James Bond franchise, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are stepping back to focus on other projects.

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Amazon MGM Studios is set to take creative control of the James Bond franchise.

The shock announcement — which is sure to shake and, indeed, stir the industry — was made Thursday, alongside the news that long-time producers and custodians of 007, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, would be stepping back.

As per details of the arrangement, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights. The three parties will remain co-owners of the iconic franchise but Amazon MGM will have creative control.

  • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 days ago

    Fun fact, the Broccoli family of Bond fame does not just happen to have a vegetable for a last name. It was in their Italian village, and they claim by one of their own ancestors, that broccoli was bred from local brassica species (cauliflower and rabe). In the 1920s, before producing films, the first generation of US Broccolis started a farm in NY and popularized the vegetable here, 2,000 years after it was invented in Italy.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    Surprising. I had previously read Barbara did not like the direction Amazon was trying to take the franchise and would not allow certain projects to go forward.